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The Clinton News Record, 1932-03-03, Page 7'THURS., 101ARC.}T 3, 1932 Health, Cooking Care of Children RuMinEftiEnis aL A Column Pre Jared Cka� Especially for Women -- But Not Forbidden to Men IN THE D'ART • I've had my supper, And had my supper, And .had my sapper and all; 'I've heard the story Of Cinderella, And how she went to the bel; • I've cleaned my. teeth, And I've said my prayers, And I've cleaned and said then•. fright; .:Acid they've all ee them been And kissed me lots, They've all of them said "Good- night." • ;So—here I am in the dark alone, There's nobody here to see; I think to myself, I play to myself, And nobody knows what I say to thyself; Here I am in the dark alone, What is it going to be? I can think whatever I like to think, I can play whatever I like to play, • I can laugh whatever I like to laugh, There's nobody here but ,nie. I'm talking to a rabbit— I'm talking to the sun— ;1 think I am a hundred— I'nt one. I'ni lying in a forest---. I'ni lying in a cave— I'm talking to a dragon-- I'nt BRAVE. I'ni lying on my left side -- I'm lying on my right -- I'll play a lot tomorrow--. I'll think a lot tomorrow— I'1 1 — 1 au h g ot-- aI teemrnow-- !. Hem • -. tla. hl ( g ) Good -night. A. A. Milne. Doesn't the above give a charming picture of a little boy, whq has been put to bed in a happy humour and who is going to be very independent and do some individual thinking, if • sleep had not•overtaken him so soon? Nothing on earth is sweeter than the picture of a child going Happily to bed, when bedtime comes, while nothing is more disturbing than see- ing a child go unhappily to bed to cry itself to sleep, One of the things thatparents •should guard their children against is being afraid of being left alone in - the dark. A child is net naturally afraid of this and if used to it from babyhood will not, be. . The fear of • dark is a very unnecessary and a very unhappy thing, little ones • should be protected from it. Sleep comes quicker and is more profound in the soft, ,enveloping darkness, so that children should have the advam tage of it, and night .as well have, ' if parents and attendants understood this and acted upon it. Haw does the following measure- ments tally with your own, girls? They are given by Flo Zeigfield as her idea of the perfect female • .figure; Height, 5' 51A"; weight, 120 ,lbs.; neck, 13"; bust, 341-2"; waist, 26"; hips 36 1-2"; -thighs, 21 1-2"; calf, J 13 1-4"; ankle, 8".; wrist, 5 3-4." A11 measurements are without pressure, of comae, 'just as ,you stand. It is. to be hoped that women will never a- gain be silly enough. to resort to tigh•t•lacing. ' A•publie speaker on the use of cos- metics in Toronto the other day ad- vised those Who use rouge and lip- stick to match thein. • ,The autistic sense it seems- has been: offended by fhe use by some careless ladies -of one shade of rouge .on the cheeks and another shade .of lipstick. When purchasing, therefore, ladies should be very careful to (match them up. In fact, we gather, that as great care needs •to be exercised • in the choice of •bhese beauty, aide azin the matching of silks for embroidery or wool fol.' the finishing off of the home knitted sweater. Funny, isn't it? Now, we do not pose as an author- ity at all, but we should imagine that there would be just one color for rouge or lipstick, and that as near the color of blood as possible, with, possibly, darker or lighter slhades for blonds and brunettes. The idea of putting on a bit of color was invented, (or so, in -our. innocence, we have always supposed), to supply what nature had skimped a bit. So the odor would need to be as near a natural colon' as possible. But sone seem to have gotten 'far from that idea. They choose their paint ac- cording to the mood their happen to be in at the moment, just as you would choose the color of the paint for the kitchen woodwork. They have one shade to wear vrith one frock and another to wear with another. Of course this must simplify mat- ters i n as f o is depending eu ar >o p one' own \ stn natural `complexion there are shades that wear canna/war at all and other shades which bring out all that is best in one's appearance. However, there is sense in our first supposition, that the shade ref any aid to the beauty of the complex- icnt ought to be as near to nature as possble. After all there is nothing quite so lovely ns a fresh, young, clean skin, blooming with health but innocent of any adornment. That is the result one should ails at when using aids, ' But you \still meet one lady with a bright complexion which has a dash of purple in it, and another with a decidedly bronze tinge on her cheeks. All one can say about such "stake -up" is that it is striking, it strikes the beholder very forceably, and not always agreeably. I've always thought that if a wo- man past her first youth, to whom nature has not been very kind, feels that she can aid her appear- ance by a little addition of rouge and powder, she is perfectly justified, provided she does not make an ex- hibition of herself by using too much or the wrong shade. But for the young girl, with her own fresh, young shin, such aids are hardly ev- er necessary. And, at least in this neck of the woods, we see very much less of that sort of thing than we did a few years ago. The fart has worm itself out to some extent. But if ladies will persist in dabbing on color it would seem to be advisable to see that the .sliacles used: do not screams at eaeh other. RI;BEKAH. Food --The Modern Home Remedy (Barbara B. Brooks) Years ago • children trudged to school with a bag of asafetida tied ealound their necks to ward off ill- ness. That was only ono of the many home romedias which mothers prac- tised to keep the family healthy and in good humor. These traditions in- cluded catnip tea, .as a prevention against insomnia and nervousness, sulphur and molasses as a spring tonic, sassafras tea, 'anion syrups, turpentine and lard acrd' the bacon mad for sore throat. ' We have outlived most of these ideas today and instead, we try, to. build up 001r .bodies with adequate nourishment,proper exercise and good habits of living so that }ve are strong enough to fight off gene in- vasion, •ourselves. Food is a conternpgrary factor in the field of medicine, and 'doctors Neve only recently begun to realize how great a part diet plays in the conditionn of the patient. It' has been proved .airy times • that amu ]ntelli, gent balance of "food -is <a 'safegueed to health. So the modern mother Molts tie her Menus, instead of pre- eeriptions. What is an intelligent balance 'of food? Praetieally speaking, if the day's meals include cereals, two or more vegetables besides potatoes one fresh, (if possible , fruit plenty of milk (qu,art for children and pint for educts is id'eal), and sonic form of protein (cheese,'eg'gs, neat, nuts and fish), besides the usual bread, butter and dessert, they will likely be balanced, If this plan is follow- ed, yon need not worry about vita- mins, minerals, or ,the many outer ilood elements. , Avery moclern ailment •and one which our ancestors did not have to guard againstas lunch as we do, is constipation. We exercise very little and we eat far to' many eoft foods. Naturally if torn•, bodies are burdened with the •effects of faulty elimina- tion, the 'resistence to infection is lowered, and wo are very apt to "catch something,' Roughage, thee fold; element which stimulates. di. ' THE CLINTON NEWS-RECORI f Edited By Lebarn. Hakabel' Kralc gestive processes and'prevenbs con- stipation, should be included in the diet, Wie find roughage in whole tain cereals, h rami i i• co o ii a bele s. d vegetables and fruits Of the two metals below one is planned to include plenty of roughage and the other Practically nine. Note the differ- once. Meal Without Roughage Cream of Tomato 'Soup Mashed Potatoes 1.•amb Chops White bread, butter, ''austere. Meal With Roughage Cream ,off Tomato Soup Lamb Chops Mashed Potatoes String Beans or Head Lettuce 13ran bfuffins Butter Stewed Primes In •lobe •first heal, . lie* cream soup has been made of strained tomatoes, minus their /lateral fiber and seeds. The potatoes have lbeen whipped into a srnoath fluffiness to delight' the taste. The bread has been prepared from flour, stripped of its bran at the mill. And nothing could: be creamier or .softer than a custard There is practically no roughage in the meal as it stands and often such menus are the underlying cause of many cases Jolt' constipittian. We can improve the meal by a few simple changes. String beans and lettuce have a healthful natural fiber. of th.elr own. By serving the speci- fied muffins', we add bran, which is not Only an excellent source of roughage, but it aaa1so contains the valuable minerals, copper and iron. Dried fruits can be relied upon to furnish roughage because of their seed's, skins and fibrous meats. In making these changes, we have not \only improved the meal ntitt•itionally, but we have made it more appetizing and interesting. PRYING INTO THE FUTURE . BY MEANS OF TEA LEAVES A few of the ancient superstitions that have :drifted down to present days are quite t lltfl Rmi ll '. Y q amusing. Some of them work in well when one is plan- nit t all evening's 'nlli ' g fication tas, ace instance the tellin • of fortunes , g rtes by means of tea, leaves. Tea leaves, floating in the cup were supposed .to indicate company, soft ones representing a woman and hard ones a man. Wlherl small, the guest was expected to be a targe person; long grounds foretold a tall visitor. If the grounds were thrown ruler the table the guest was ex- pected to remain over night, or long- er, but' if Ieft in the cup, the pall svould be of short duration. Gtiounds remaining in a cup after the tea had been taken imparted still further knowledge. The cup was turned a- bout several times and placed bot - tem up on the sauces., when the turn- ing process was eantin eed liar a few times before setting the cup upright and studying the grounds. An .open pathway through the grounds indi- cated a journey-, its length depending on the length of the path. When the cup was turned sideways, if any tea ran out tears were anticipated ion the journey. A ring of groueds, with a 8ma11 dot in the center, rep- resented a wish, amid the owner of the eup was advised to think of what was most deeply desired, as it would certainly be gvanted.--Areeri- can Agriculturist. DO YOUR BEST A minister tens how, when n bey, he was a great whistler', and some, tithes whistled in tU usual and ens seemly places. One day, stat long since, says an exchange, he came out 6f a (hotel whistling quite low. A little bay playing in the yard heard him, and;said: 'Is. that the. best you can whistle?' 'No,' said the Minsiter, `Can you beat .11 ?' The bay said ho could, and the minister mid: 'Well, let's Amer you.' The little fellow' began .bo whistle, and •then insisted that the minister should try again. He did so, and the boy acknowledged' that it was •good whistling, and as he sleeted away the little fellow sand:r'Wel], if you can whistle better., what were yon Whistling that way foe? The world has, plenty of pees, slip- sR'ed, laird -class work done by peo- ple win; could do better if _they would. --'Rami' Boom.' THIS WASN'T THE NEWS -RECORD A merchant Who had a Ice of mail-• ing to do asked, to ibborrow the •doodad used in" the News office to lick .stamps and envelopes and' was told he could have it. leassing, the editor• a little later :he believed: "I'll be over after filet licker." A minister with- in hearing distance told oe what he wog Feasting the Cod of Medicine The following interesting' account the .idol and the pigs were arranged so that theirheads were pointing in that direction. They began to arrive soon after dinner but they could not all get places in the school grounds, so all the roads leading to the place were lined with these pigs and in front of gvery one was a table load- ed with other g`ood•things to - eat. was a celebration to welcome the god There were pieces of cooked meat, of medicine to our midst and during chickens, duck, 'turkeys, vegetables and cakes, rows and rows of them, besides the burning incense. Then down at the side they had a little bonfire of idol paper burning.The of a strange belief was taken from the February publication of "The Glad Tidings," and was written by a teacher - in a Presbyterian mission school at Tamsui, Formosa, Japan, "This has been a festive day for Tallied and the surrounding country, Last year just about this time, there JEN this year he has Iived 1n a temple clown by the seashore, After having had this honor he mustbe allowed to pass on to the next place, so, to -day, people gathered from ail the ,couijtry priest came along and waved some round to bid him farewell. burning incense over thein and nnmr- I suppose there was seaecely a bled a few words and in a surpris- 'house in-Tamsui which did not have guests .for the great 'event, not ex- cluding ourselves, for the coolie had a friend stay all night with him so that he would not miss anything to} day. • The best way to maize this god hap- py seems to be to give him plenty to eat, especially pork. The people feed pigs until they are an enormous size. weighing five or six hundred pounds and often more. The one which re, ceived the prize today weighed over a thousand pounds. After they are killed they are scraped and dressed and stretched on a frame with an apple or- orange ip their mouth. Some of them had little red blankets on and others had decorations of silver paper on their ears, which looked like ]corns. Ail of them had a necklace of ten -sen pieces around their necks. The people had put up a shed on the girl's public school grounds for ingly short time there was 'nothing left except a little heap of burned paper. The pigs wereall cut up on the spot as they were much easier to carry that- way. So you may be sure there was 'great feasting everywhere to -night. We heard that there would be six hundred pigs .killed for this celebra- tion and I suppose there were, al, though I did not see thein; all. But when one thinks of the amount of money that was spent and the num- ber of people who were there, com- pared to the number who will be in church tomorrow, it makes us very said. It is hard to think that the people can believe that going through all those motions and carrying a pig a few miles to burn incense will. give them more merit, but they do, and how to bring them to a know- ledge of and belief in our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ is our great problem." The Bazaar at Gypsumwille • Willing Workers Are Bound to'Ha a New Church • Miss Margaret Mustard, in char Of ad mite ' Church U C ch ' is M sr'on r aHo w ental a writing I t G3lisumville, to t editor the other day to renew h subscription,t 1 a u knowing t t Cita g were interested in her work, added the following interesting account of te bazaar held, by a group of young girls. Miss Mustard is a Brucefield gi'I, trained in Clinton Public Hos- pital and is well -.known to many readers: ' "You Will seo whale, our thoughts are turning this year, by the enclos- ed, use it in the paper Only if you feel it would interest your readers. (We feel sure there will be keen in- terest.) "We are doing our best to build us a wee church and I think we at. succeeding. Times being hard onl snakes the project more worthwhil in our eyes, » We have no thought o putting off for that reason. Fe twenty-five years our people her have been 'put off.' There has nest been a church of any denomination It is hard to imagine family after family being brought up without th church. Tragic tales are told, and al torr true. tut about the Inner: "The long talked of. long worked fee bazaar is over, The proceeds which were in aid of the building fund for our Church building Teach, ed 3300.00. These who worked so hated to stake it a success are very happy about it. One of the New Year resolutions of our C.G.I.T. group for 1031 was to put on toward the end of the year a real big money peedueing bazaar. The leader and the girls' set to work, They racked their brains for ways and means. Plans were made and busy fingers flew, at each meeting. Work was taken home to finish and often a busy. mother .laid .dorm her work to crochet lace for a doll's pet- ticoat or a table runner, and often the busy mothers asked for more work to take hone. We got in touch with other C.G. LT. groups, also with other auxile iaries and the response was won- derful. Sometimes they sent mater- ial foe us to work on and sometimes finished work, sometimes new things from the stores and often letters of encouragement and itrontises of more help. As the dace Of bazaar' drew near box after bore came of de- lightful things. They came :from Meritreal•' from Toronto, fra'nm Win- ipeg 'and Banff and from`town el- er town in Mauitaha and Ontario. AUG children big children and ad- lts wars all interested and all NV to !help. A friend in Soutli Bine sent a wonderful, box of lin- ts and trinkets Which were + a great. ear, and a great treat to otu pi eirie copse, Mrs. bl'aeGillivray's visit; 'Sn May was a big' help' in more ways than ne as she must have gone out t and vei•tiged' our ;loaner \yell from the umber ' of boxes that cease to us em cher, friends. Mors. Mta•cGillivray- id her sister-in-law, l4Irs.� 10 Mac- ve' eellivray sent their own lovely box which !helped a lot and made es es- pecially happy. go We let the people buy our bazaar thins six e• g weeks ahead , s s of the date rte sot for bazaar night as we knew er Our things could not all be sold on bazaar night. t Weve N ad itis i i ec t well, putting up a new poster once a week far a month ahead. We encouraged outsiders to buy their Christmas gifts from ,is. We have good value for all money spent. The girls worked for days ahead making candy for the sweet tooth booth. The mothers made home-made baking, and 0010 planned a chicken supper as a special drawing element. 'When the night arrived the weather was perfect and the Convmunity Ball wits packed. ° Eaton's bargain coun- ters had nothing on our booths that e. night. Tho people crowded around y 8118111 until practically everything e was sold. We -had made our tables f and booths as attractive as possible and were well repaid. e And naw, when it is all over and er our precious money in the bank ' swelling the Chureh fund, we want to thank ell those who so generously 1 contributed to our success. W.14]',S. 'n u C e h 1� e eta ha.cl heard and theestot'y got noised ,n abdut that there was Neese in the Pr News office—N 17 A Bull ti groups, Y. W. Auxiliaries, Circles, C.G.I.T. groups and Mission Bands all over Canada have shown a won, derful spirit of giving and we thank you all most sincerely. We are net only glad for the articles you sent but are especiaaly gia2 of the inter- est you have shown in our work here and in our efforts to build our own church. We expect to build in the summer of 1032 and eve knew you will all be glad to see•theefirst snap- shot of our neW building. Thanking every one of you again and again. Sincerely yours, --Margaret J. Mustard. REGION.OF PIERCE HEAT iUST ABOVE THE EARTH? Just n meso 50 miles above our heads the temperatureie between 1,000 and 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit, according, to a new theory of the earth's atnnesphare presented by Prof. H. Guthonberg, of the Califor- nia Instituto of Technology. This extremely that weather a few exiles up, according to Professor •Guthen- berg's novet theory, is because the atmosphere is emetically the same in composition throughout 'and not exclusively helium In some high layers, as other physicists have CM.. eluded. • Although the temperatures are hig•h in the heights of thio stras- osphere, the air is very diffuse and thin. Only a rocket could actually penetrate the atmospheric heights to bring back evidence of, what 'ac- tually exists there, Professor Guth- enberg said. The shells of the Meg- , anige gun used by the Germans in. bonuharrling Paris palatably travelled ill a highly boated, region elf thin at - =sphere, but since they 'exploded, it is not known. 'how they •were affected by the 1ieat that they encountered Household Economies PAGE 7 xsummuommaassmeam UNBMPLOY•M)NT REDUCED BY LAND A D SE7 TL E DN TIN" CANADA DA One of the most Marked" back to the land" movements from Cupadian urban centres expeirienced ]n.yeass is taking place at :the present time and'is likely to gain momentum dm- ing the . present year; according to W. T. Slack, • 1hirector of Coloniza- tion and Agriculture :for the Cana - elan. National Railways. Its extent is indicated' by the fact that during 1931, 2,894 families • wage settled" an farm Iands adjacent. to Canadians National Railways lines, embracing an area , of approxiniately 403,700 acres, 1h addiction to 2,083 single men placed in agricultural employ- ment Nearly all of the families came' from Canadian towns and cities and many of them had previous agricul- tural experience, but in the ."boom" years forsook the land; for the allur- ing profits •and shorter • hours of work ,then offered by industrial em- ployment in the cities. Since then many of theme have been put an part time and others have become unem- ployed, and with the prospects of their life savings being gradually depleted, have decided to return to the land where they can be assured, at least, of a roof over their heads and enough feed to eat. "It is not a ease of simply increas- ing Canadian .agricultural produc- tion," states Mr. Black. "This move- ment actually represents the efforts of many people to solve for them- selves in a practical way the urgent economic problem which faces them. They argue that on a farm they can be at ]east sure of sustenance and at the same time have a better chance to conserve what limited funds they may have acquired dur- (Iri) ttti, NIP Cls 1 ing long year of industrial employ - 1m en c." In pursuit of this polity of ass sisting;families in urban centres to return` to the land, a co-ordinated plan agreedupon early in tho year with the federal and provincial gov- ernments and other colonization ag- encies, to give every possible assis, bailee , to such families in finding sat- isfactory t vcation. This .policy hes worked very satisfactorily and heel enabled a great manyfamilies to bes come re-estaiblisthed.; "The economic value of thie move. menu• 15 unquestionable .and it is ease firm belief that the transfer of fam- ilies from the eines to the land whieh has been tatting place quietly and steadily during the past 12 months, will bring •about greater stability in our national life and at the same time devdlop a more desirable ratio between urban and rural population." A child in an English school gave a definition of the abbreivation "etc." that is a good deal nearer the truth than the one given in the dic- tionary. He said: "Etc. is a sign us. ed to make people believe you know more than you do." Mrs. Swift—John, the baby can walk. Mr. Swift --(Good, now he can walk the floor at night by ,himself. —Answers. Time is a cat which scratches at the corners of a man's mouth and eyes. If he smiles at the cat, the scars turn up at the ends, If he scowls at it, the corner of the sears tens down, says the Kiwanis Magas zine. Y^ p. ea 1 Ci Se�"i Vice OF THE GM alis' b- Yi tt � Agooriativn GRANT FLEMING S•rdIlaWile ASSOCIATE SECRETARY DUCTLESS GLANDS Wiest of the larger glands of the body, such as the liver, pancreas and salivary glands, produce a secretion which is passed out from the gland through a duct. There are some glatids which have no duct, but which, nevertheless, produce a secre- tion. These are the ductless glands, endocrine organs, or organs of in- ternal secretion. The secretions which the ductless glands produce enter the circulation and play an important part in reg- ulating the development and the functions of the body. Because the secretions of these glands are not passed out through a duet, they are known as internal secretions, or her- mones. ' There are still other glands which belong to both groups. These glands produce one secretion and pass it out through the duct, as well as a second one which is an internal secretion. A ductless gland may be ayeraative or underactive, or it may produce a socretion which is abnormal. In such cases, depending upon the de- viation from normal, disturbances in development er functions occur, The thyroid gland, situated in the front of the neck, is a ductless gland producing an, internal secretion. An over -active and probably abnormal thyroid gland gives rise to the con- dition known as ex -ophthalmic goitre, or Graves' disease. The effects may be profound; the pulse becomes rats - id, there is protrusion of the eye- balls, and the patient is restless and excitable. The opposite condition, known as myxoedema. is due to a deficiency of the internal secretion of the thyroid gland. The body activities, both phy- 1 sieal and mental, are slowed down. When the thyroid gland is absent at birth, the condition of cretinism oc- curs, and the child does not develop normally; he rennins infantile, being retarded physically and mentally Fortunately, a lack of thyroid sec- ration earation can be overcome by feeding the required amount of thyroid sub- stance. In this way, it is possible to restore eases, in whom there is a •thyroid deficiency, to a normal con, dition. The response to treatment is dramatic in severe cases. It is evident that the thyroid gland, through its internal secretion, influ- ences the functioning of the body. An excess brings about hyperactivity; a deficiency results in a depression of functions. There are other ductless glands — the pineal, the pituitary and supra- renals. It would appear that they are related to each ether in their functioning, Because the knowledge concerning the dectiess gands is comparatively new, and because there is still so much about thein that re- mains unknown, they have a myster- ious appeal. The idea of what they Wright do has been exploited in many ways, and unsupported claims are made as to their value in the treats anent of a great variety . of condi- tions. At the present time, there is a de• finite field of usefulness for such glandetheapy, but there is nothing to justify the exaggerated clainns which are made, and which are only apt to mislead and arouse false hopes. Questions concerning Health, ad.. dressed to the Canadian Medical As. sedation, 1184 College Street, Toron- to, will be answered personally by etter. No other•food you can buy wi 1 give you so much delicious nourishment for such little cost as CROWN BRAND CORN SYRUP-- the famous economny food. Every grocer seas it. 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